Re: web application development question

You can still have it updateable by a client. Fopen that file read it, change the appropriate values and close it.. Voila! All done :) Rick "A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special" - Nelson Mandela > From: Erik Price <pricee@hhbrown.com> > Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:14:43 -0400 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] web application development question > > > On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 03:58 PM, Jason Wong wrote: > >>> For those of you who write web applications (in any language), what do >>> you recommend as the best way to store arbitrary atomic data for the >>> web >>> application? in other words, data that doesn't really need to be >>> stored >>> in a relational database, as it does not really relate to anything? >> >> Stick it in an include file? > > I'm sorry, I meant to be more clear -- > > although include files are great for storing data that will probably not > change (but are now in a convenient include file in case they have to > change), I was thinking of making this data updateable from within the > application. So that my employer, who does not know a thing about PHP > or MySQL, can change this information from the "administration" section > of the site. Which is why I was thinking of using the database... > > ... well, I may just keep it in an include file, and if anyone ever > needs to change the data, I'll explain in the documentation where the > data should be changed. Thanks for the tips guys > > > Erik > > > > > ---- > > Erik Price > Web Developer Temp > Media Lab, H.H. Brown > pricee@hhbrown.com > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >